Canada's Indian Residential Schools:

Oh Canada ...What have we done?

http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1031426

Ted Quewezance, executive director of the National Residential School Survivors' Society.

"It's the history

of the government

of this country,

what they have done

to little boys and little girls.

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And tens of thousands of children did not come home from Canada's 'Indian' Residential Schools.

Their families were never told what happened to them. They wonder still.

The school principals never reported children's deaths or disappearances to the government.

The government did not request or maintain any accounting for the students legally in their care.

The principal reported only the total student population to get per diem grants.

Tens of thousands of children just 'disappeared' in Canada's 'Indian' Residential Schools.

Did the churches keep the children's names on the school roll,

and continue to collect the per diem grants for the children who 'disappeared'?

Did the government know? Does the government care?

Do Canadians know that through six generations of Indigenous families,

1800's to 1996, 30-50% of their children did not come home

from Canada's mandatory 'Indian' Residential Schools?

Do Canadians know that despite UN urging since 1952, Canada did not make a domestic law against genocide until 2000 ... four years after the last government run school closed?

Do Canadians care to know the truth?

Do Canadians dare to tell the truth?

www.hiddenfromhistory.org

Interview with Kevin Annett June 18 2008
http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=aud1.kpfa.org&port=80&file=dummy.m3u&mount=/data/20080618-Wed1700.mp3